Tanfield Parish Council NEWSLETTER July 2015

The Parish Council met on 3rd July 2015 and considered a number of items.

BONFIRE & FIREWORKS 2015 QUARRY LIAISON The Parish Council was represented at a liaison meeting CAN YOU HELP? with Lafarge Tarmac at Nosterfield Quarry on 5th June. A full report from that meeting is on the Council’s The Parish Council is looking for volunteers to run website, which has recently been updated to include a the 2015 bonfire and fireworks event. The site at quarry liaison section: Nosterfield Quarry’s visitor centre is available, www.tanfieldparishcouncil.btck.co.uk/QuarryLiaison now it just needs people to organise the evening. You may wish to note the following key points: Whether you could marshall the mashalls, source  Most of the extraction from the Ladybridge site has the sausages or find the fireworks the Parish been completed. Council would like to hear from you! If you could  Lafarge Tarmac remain committed to not quarrying help then please contact the Clerk whose details are south of the B6267 (the Henges.) They are in active given below. discussions to transfer their ownership of the surface of the Scheduled Ancient Monument site of the Thornborough Henges to Historic . MOBILE RECEPTION IN NOSTERFIELD  Further and updated information has been submitted The Parish Council has been approached by mobile to North County Council about the phone provider ‘EE’ which would like to use proposed Langwith House Farm extension which, if Nosterfield as a trial site for improving mobile phone approved, would extend the quarry towards Well. service in rural areas. Nosterfield is one of only a few The Parish Council agreed that it had no further settlements in the country chosen for this pilot scheme. comments to add to those which it submitted in 2011 It is hoped that a 4G service could be achieved using when the application was first submitted. new technologies. Watch this space for more infor-  Parish Council representatives from both Tanfield mation as the Council has it! and Well continue to press for as little restoration to water as possible.

Hambleton District Council has put out a The Council is going to apply to the Tour de ‘call for sites’. France Community Fund for funding to help This means that they are asking developers to put with the provision of a community de- forward sites which they would like to develop for fibrillator in the parish. either housing or employment purposes in the year. It is likely that some sites in this parish will be put forward. The Parish Council had no objections to proposals for an More information is available at: extension, addition of new rear windows and conversion of www.hambleton.gov.uk/council-news/3798-call-for- the loft to include new rooflights at the White House, sites Thornborough.

After a couple of break ins to local sheds, local Police are reminding residents of the necessity of securing outbuildings with adequate locks. They also advise registering power tools on www.immobilise.com to make items easier to recover and less attractive to steal. Report any suspicious activity by ringing 101. If a crime is in progress ring 999.

Clerk to the Parish Council: NEXT MEETINGS Mrs Iona Taylor Planning meetings may be held (if c/o Morningside, Grewelthorpe, RIPON, HG4 3BT necessary) on 26th August and 30th Tel: 01765-658376 September. E-mail: [email protected] The next full meeting will be at 7pm on www.tanfieldparishcouncil.btck.co.uk 28th October in Hall.